Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.